NEWS: Summer Schedule 2014

[Gietje]

The slotlist for S14 is showing more strange flights (also some more likely flights):

- Qatar Airways, daily flight with A330-300 (QR276/277 afternoon flights)
- Singapore Airways, upgrade to B777-300ER
- Korean Air, upgrade to B777-200ER (from June onwards)
- Phillipine Airlines, daily B777-300ER again...
- EL AL, B737-900ER on most flights
- Emirates EK149/150 is showing an A330-300 between 1May and 20July...
- Air China Cargo is operating a mix of B777F and B747F

I'd call most of these actually probable, except for the Emirates flight, that flight is supposed to be cancelled that period due to runway construction at DXB.

[B767-300ER]

Qatar requests slots every year. Never uses them
Emirates 149-150 will not fly in that period.
LY will use the 739 more often because it has phase out its 767's
Korean used there 772 on the AMS route in the oast, so does SQ.

It are still slots. Lets wait and see

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[Dutchman]

- Emirates EK149/150 is showing an A330-300 between 1May and 20July...

First of all they don´t even have A330-300's and as already mentioned the EK149/150 will not operate between 1st May and 20th July.

Best regards,

Dimitri

[YS11]

[quote="B767-300ER"]LY will use the 739 more often because it has phase out its 767's
/quote]

They still have the B767-300,only the B767-200, left the fleet.

[cHabu]

Since personally I have no insight into any schedule developments at AMS, this is nothing but a shameless copy from an a.net thread.
That thread however mentions a new Air Canada flight to Amsterdam. Not a B767 or B787, but by extending the A319 flight from Heathrow!

Only 2 Air Canada A319's are ETOPS certified (C-GITP/C-GITR), and these are the only ACA 319s to make it to London. So unless more are certified, then even if the flight is extended, expect to see only 2 aircraft.

[XYZ]

Belavia plans to increase the frequency of its Minsk-AMS-Minsk route from 5x/week to 6x/week in S14, with a new Sunday CRJ service:

- dep. AMS 12:00 - arr. MSQ 15:30 B2 868 Non-Stop B735 Daily ex. Tue, Sun
- dep. AMS 12:00 - arr. MSQ 15:30 B2 868 Non-Stop CRJ Sun only

[XYZ]

ELAL and its competitors plans to operate TLV-AMS-TLV as follows in S14:

- dep. AMS 02:00 - arr. TLV 07:30 HV 723 Non-Stop B738 Mon + Thu
- dep. AMS 10:25 - arr. TLV 15:50 IZ 2514 Non-Stop B753 Fri
- dep. AMS 11:00 - arr. TLV 16:15 IZ 2514 Non-Stop B753 Mon
- dep. AMS 11:35 - arr. TLV 17:05 LY 338 Non-Stop B763 Tue, Wed, Thu, Sun
- dep. AMS 11:45 - arr. TLV 17:15 LY 338 Non-Stop B744 Mon, Fri
- dep. AMS 21:05 - arr. TLV 02:35 KL 0461 Non-Stop B739 Daily
- dep. AMS 21:50 - arr. TLV 03:25 LY 336 Non-Stop B738 Daily ex. Fri, Sat

Note the rather unique HV departure time ex.AMS

[cHabu]

Air Lituanica will, during the first half of 2014, add two new aircraft to its fleet in anticipation of the launch of new flights to Moscow and the resumption of services to Amsterdam, abandoned following an acrimonious falling out with Estonian Air.

[Lars]

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[XYZ]

KLM plans to launch direct flights AMS-Bilbao starting 26 May 2014:

- dep. AMS 11:35 - arr. BIO 13:45 VY8355 2h 10min. Sat
- dep. AMS 13:10 - arr. BIO 15:20 VY8355 2h 10min. Tue + Thu
- dep. AMS 14:50 - arr. BIO 17:00 KL1687 2h 10min. NEW Daily Ex. Tue & Thu - E90
- dep. AMS 16:00 - arr. BIO 18:10 VY8355 2h 10min. Sun

[XYZ]

KLM has announced plans to return to Zagreb from 25 May 2014:

- dep. AMS 14:30 - arr. ZAG 16:20 KL1943 non-stop 1h 50m Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
- dep. ZAG 16:55 - arr. AMS 19:05 KL1944 non-stop 2h 10m Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun

KLM operated to ZAG for many years with DC9 routing AMS-ZAG-BEG-ZAG-AMS.

Route is most likely seasonal Summer only, ends late October.

[MAS017]

KLM has announced plans to return to Zagreb from 25 May 2014:

- dep. AMS 14:30 - arr. ZAG 16:20 KL1943 non-stop 1h 50m Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
- dep. ZAG 16:55 - arr. AMS 19:05 KL1944 non-stop 2h 10m Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun

KLM operated to ZAG for many years with DC9 routing AMS-ZAG-BEG-ZAG-AMS.

Route is most likely seasonal Summer only, ends late October.

Another new E90 route
(timings sound similar to new Bilbao route)

[Hurricane]

KLM has announced plans to return to Zagreb from 25 May 2014:

- dep. AMS 14:30 - arr. ZAG 16:20 KL1943 non-stop 1h 50m Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
- dep. ZAG 16:55 - arr. AMS 19:05 KL1944 non-stop 2h 10m Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun

KLM operated to ZAG for many years with DC9 routing AMS-ZAG-BEG-ZAG-AMS.

Route is most likely seasonal Summer only, ends late October.

Another new E90 route
(timings sound similar to new Bilbao route)

Nope, reports indicate the Fokker 70 for the ZAG operations

[XYZ]

Turkish Airlines is currently planning to operate the following schedule in S14:

- dep. AMS 12:00 - arr. IST 16.25 TK 1952 Non-Stop A330 daily
- dep. AMS 14:35 - arr. IST 19:10 TK 1958 Non-Stop A321 daily
- dep. AMS 15:35 - arr. SAW 20:10 TK 1962 Non-Stop B738 daily
- dep. AMS 18:15 - arr. IST 22:45 TK 1954 Non-Stop A321 daily
- dep. AMS 23:55 - arr. IST 04:30 TK 1956 Non-Stop B738 daily

The TK route ESB-AMS-ESB is closed.

[XYZ]

KLM increases frequency AMS-PRG-AMS on Saturday to 5x/day:

- dep. AMS 06:50 - arr. PRG 08:20 KL1351 E90 daily
- dep. AMS 12:10 - arr. PRG 13:40 KL1355 E90 daily
- dep. AMS 14:35 - arr. PRG 16:00 KL1353 E90 SAT ONLY = NEW
- dep. AMS 16:15 - arr. PRG 17:40 KL1357 B73W daily
- dep. AMS 21:05 - arr. PRG 22:35 KL1359 E90 daily

It seems that KLM has adopted a new scheduling strategy for S14 with new low frequency European flights to (1) augment popular routes, such as VCE & PRG, or (2) to build seasonal routes such as BIO & ZAG.